Hoover hog

名词 n.
英 /ˈhuːvəˌhɒɡ/    美 /ˈhuvɚˌhɒɡ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An animal which is eaten by poor people during hard times, especially an armadillo or jackrabbit, but also a possum or squirrel. Southern-US,US,especially
    — Sometimes living on rabbits and squirrels , they described their fare as Hoover hogs. The President's rigid stand on the relief issue widened the gap between the Old Guard and the insurgents in the Republican party, and his differences with ...

词形变化

Hoover hogs plural

词源

From Hoover (“US President Herbert Hoover”) + hog, because impoverished people were reduced to (and Hoover himself may have suggested) eating such animals during the Great Depression, which Hoover presided over the start of.
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